Method of Making Water Stress or Salt Stress Tolerant Transgenic Cereal Plants
- Detailed Technology Description
- This invention introduces a stress-inducible promoter complex that contains an ABA-response complex (ABRC) to help alleviate the problems caused by salt stress and drought stress.
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U.S. Patent: 6,951,971;
- *Abstract
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Salt stress and drought stress cause losses of over ten billion dollars each year. This invention introduces a stress-inducible promoter complex that contains an ABA-response complex (ABRC) to help alleviate this problem. This promoter complex can be fused with a DNA molecule that increases tolerance to salt stress or water stress to create a gene cassette. Monocot plants transformed with this gene cassette exhibit increased tolerance to water stress or salt stress only when exposed to stress.
Potential Applications
- Desired trait genes can be expressed under water and salt stress conditions with this promoter.
- Cereal plants that can be transformed and made stress-tolerant include plants of the family Gramineae (also known as Poaceae), including rice, wheat, corn, barley, oat, sorgum, and millet.
Advantages
- Using an inducible promoter allows plants to grow at regular metabolic rates until it is exposed to stress, thereby conserving the plantÕs energy and resources.
- When paired with an effective protein, this promoter can dramatically increase yields and growth rates of plants grown under osmotic-stress conditions
- Decreasing the loss in crop yield caused by these stresses by even just one percent could significantly reduce the loss of money worldwide
- *Licensing
- JeffFearn607-254-4502jcf55@cornell.edu
- Country/Region
- USA
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